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American Church History: Episcopal and Anglican Denominations

This research guide provides resources pretraining to American church history and includes books, ebooks, open access resources, and websites.

List of Episcopal and Anglican Churches in the United States

Anglican Church in North America: Founded in 2009 membership is estimated to be 128,000 across 977 churches (2024).

Anglican Province of America: Founded in 1998 with roots to 1968, membership is estimated to be 4,000 (2018) in 56 congregations (2024).

Communion of Evangelical Episcopal Churches: Founded in 1997, membership estimate and church numbers are unknown.

Continuing Anglican Churches: Founded in 1997, members is estimated over 100,000 in over 1,000 parishes. 

Episcopal Church: Founded in 1789, membership is estimated to be around 1.6 million in 6,353 parishes (2020).

International Communion of the Charismatic Episcopal Church: Founded in 1992, with an estimated 56-117 parishes (2020).

Reformed Episcopal Church: Founded in 1873, membership is estimated to be around 15,000 over 114 parishes.

Holy Bible

There is no official bible for these denominations, but different churches may prefer one translation over another.